Boxing's great ambassador2017-02-16 · Lethbridge Herald
I'll most remember Kai as a devout defender of boxing. He knew its dangers, in fact his creaky body and sometimes dragging speech was a testament to it. But boxing saved Kai. Boxing took a ?dumbass kid? who spent his only productive time playing Tom …
Kids in the boxing ring2014-09-21 · KY3
"When I was a kid, boxing gave me a place to go, then it won me a four-year scholarship to college. It taught me discipline, it taught me respect for my elders, taught me respect for my body, and taught me how to be a man basically," says Smith. Coach…
Boxing: Cuba eyes return to glory2009-07-24 · CNN
Sharp jabs and crushing body blows echo across a boxing gym in downtown Havana. Teenage fighters pummel each other in the sweltering Caribbean heat inside Kid Chocolate, the famous Cuban boxing hall named after its pre-revolution world champion. 'I've…
Malignaggi to take on Hatton in junior welterweight title bout2008-11-20 · USA Today
For Paulie Malignaggi, it's all about the hand. His brittle right hand, to be exact, the one that has kept breaking on the hard heads and other body parts of Malignaggi's foes throughout his boxing career. The flashy 27-year-old kid from Brooklyn, who…
Boxer Kid Gavilan's body exhumed, reburied in Miami ceremony2005-04-02 · Slam! Sports
MIAMI (AP) - Shortly after his death two years ago, Kid Gavilan's body was buried in a common plot at a west Miami cemetery. For a loyal group of ex-fighters and other boxing fans, that simply wasn't good enough for the 1950s-era welterweight champion.…